Duchess Kate turns 30 years old on Monday. She’s six months older than William – and I believe Camilla Parker-Bowles is older than Charles as well, right? So, given that Kate is now a member of the royal family and given that she has pretty much spent the first 30 years of her life unemployed, wandering around getting her hair done and doing a spot of shopping, you’d think that everyone would be going all out for her birthday party. Not so! A palace spokesman said that Kate’s birthday plans are going to be on the DL: “Whatever is planned will be low-key and private.” I have a theory – Kate doesn’t want to remind people that she’s older than William. She doesn’t want to remind people that she’s 30 years old, yet gets treated like a lay-about teenager, praised for doing the bare minimum. She doesn’t want to remind people that she’s not pregnant yet as she’s entering her 30s, which makes her an oddity in the royal family (the royal women tend to get knocked up in their 20s).
Really, though, I’m just writing this post because I wanted to talk about this article that Us Weekly published yesterday. It’s all about how we too can stay “fit” like Duchess Kate.
She may be a Duchess, but Kate Middleton is a commoner when it comes to her workouts.
“For as long as I’ve known her, she’s never had a trainer,” says an aide of the royal, who squeezes in three 40-minute workouts each week.
When in London, the slim, 5-foot-10 beauty visits Clarence House’s small private gym for rowing, running and weight training. But when she’s home in Anglesey, Wales, with hubby Prince William, 29, “she never works out indoors, regardless of how rough the weather is. She likes to go on hikes, carrying small weights for her arms. She says it kills two birds with one stone,” says the palace aide, adding, “William joins her on weekends.”
Kate, 29, keeps eating simple too. Though one pal says, “she hates dieting,” she sticks to healthy picks like oatmeal, dried fruit and almonds. “Kate’s not much into sweets,” says the aide, “but she does love Kettle chips!”
[From Us Weekly]
BULLS–T. Kate didn’t go from a pleasantly athletic, healthy figure to a really, really skinny figure by just doing three workouts a week and eating oatmeal. Yes, Kate was already thinning herself out circa 2008-10, but she still had an athletic, healthy-looking build. Then when the engagement came, it seemed like she was losing weight for the wedding, and then it just kept coming off until she looked like she could snap like a twig. She was on diet, and my guess is that it was an intense one. She’s also a smoker, although she doesn’t want you to know that – she was allegedly smoking a lot to keep the weight off all of last year.
Last Kate story, I swear – People Magazine has a lengthy interview with Diana’s former protection officer Ken Wharfe, who often comments about the security concerns of the royal family. Wharfe says that it’s horrible that Kate and William’s security plans for their multi-million-dollar Kensington Palace renovation were made public. I don’t know why we should be upset, though. Aren’t we being sold an image of William and Kate as simple country folk who are happiest in Wales? Why would they ever need to be in London, right? Oh, what’s that? That’s just a BS image that the palace is trying to sell?
Photos courtesy of Fame, WENN.
Puh-leese.
Dear Kate,
Not eating is considered a form of dieting. A dangerous one…
I was going to say the same thing!
sooooooooooo true, all her annoying weight bs is such ballocks!
She said she hates dieting, she didn’t say she hates starving herself.
I’m just kidding. I like Kate-she’s harmless!
Kaiser-I think you’re just mad Fassy wasn’t at the Haywire premier. The posts seem EXTRA-snarky this Friday 🙂
And now I want kettle chips.
Every anorexic woman I have ever known has been a fan of gummy something and/or swedish fish. Maybe it takes so much effort to chew the darn stuff, it renders the calories inconsequential…?
Ok, wasn’t there some story last year about how Kate’s favorite snack is gummy bears, or something? When it was becoming obvious she’s anorexic, the palace came out with “oh no, she eats gummy bears all the time!” So that line about her hating sweets is total bs.
I think that was Angelina…reports of eating disorder/heroin abuse were shot down with, “nooooo, she loves gummi bears!”
No, I have never seen a story about Angelina & gummy bears. Get your facts straight.
Also, some people actually are naturally thin and have a very hard time putting on weight. It is rude to insult people based on their size and to make fun of them using insults.
There was a story on this site that mentioned Angelina and gummy bears.
http://www.celebitchy.com/194881/ls_angelina_jolie_is_desperate_to_be_skinny_refusing_to_eat/
There was a story about Kate and gummy sweet treats too. It was about the local shop keeper she invited to her wedding. He said she came in once a week for gummy worms and other candy.
Kate’s bone just naturally show on her chest, and her arms just bulge that way because she’s casually sporty.
Puh LEEzE. Those arms are starting to rival Madonna’s in gristle.
She’s also under a ton of stress, which can lead to weight loss.
What stress is that? The stress of one public appearance each month?
not a kate fan but I would be stressed out with dealing with a wedding like that – and all the criticism that comes with it – as well as with horrible in-laws like the royals.
If I had her life, I’d be constantly stressed and not hungry, only bc that lifestyle would freak me the hell out and I’d be paranoid and anxious all the time. Maybe that’s not the case for her, but being under a microscope can mess with your thought process.
Weight loss is a symptom of clinical depression but normal everyday stress shouldn’t make a normal person lose weight. That’s just some BS actresses use to explain their weight loss, just like how they end up in the hospital because of ‘exhaustion’. I’ve never known a normal person who had to go to the hospital because of ‘exhaustion’.
I agree on the “exhaustion” line of crap, it’s a complete lie. But, while weight loss is a symptom of depression, people who are experiencing everyday, run-of-the-mill stress can absolutely lose weight from worrying. It depends on who you are and how you handle things, everybody’s different.
Ummm… dieting = “eating simple.” Also, dieting = sticking to oatmeal, dried fruit, and almonds.
Lots of women hate dieting but do it anyway. Like me, for instance, and every single woman I know.
As for the security issues, what does being happier in Wales have to do with the fact that security arrangements for the future King of England should not be spread around the internet? Just because he seems nice doesn’t mean that killing him or his family wouldn’t be a huge feather in the cap of the same people who spend their time planning attacks on subways and hotels.
I read somewhere that she and her mom went on the Dukan Diet. Pure protein, I think.
You don’t get arms like that from just hiking.
Oy, being that thin and smoking will certainly catch up with her in the long run, she’ll look haggard before her time. It’s a shame, really, she was much lovelier when she had a nice athletic figure.
smoking explains all the lines around the mouth. she is way too young to have so may wrinkles. other than that she’s al lovely woman.
more kate moss…she’s more fabulous.
sure lets see a drugged out drunk falling overself.. fun times.
and those pics.. talk about photoshop.. kate has more wrinkles than my gran..
I think she’s trapped in an ever thinning spiral. You lose a few pounds for a big event and suddenly you feel as though you can lose some more. Especially if you are constantly in pictures, which can plump you up. And then the thinness obsession begins.
It could be a legitimate eating disorder like Diana which would be so sad. But I honestly think it’s more that she LIKES the limelight and she LIKES to look that thin.
She’s been waiting for this a long time.
Is there such a thing as a kettle chip cleanse?
PR fail. Goodness. We aren’t blind. It’s obvious this woman’s body is eating itself because she’s starving herself, but carry on with the lie that she was just born that way.
The Palace is really trying to shove their contrived image of Duchess Waity down our throats. They must think that we are gullible and stupid. She would be liked a lot more if they would just cut it out.
Just saying someone “hates dieting” doesn’t mean that they are NOT ON a diet. Who actually likes dieting?! We’re not stupid, Palace sources, we can see what she looked like 3 years ago and what she looks like now. Hiking and little hand weights…yeah, right!
you know what i hate even more than dieting? not eating at all!
I’m sorry, but the stress of getting married in front of 2 billion people might have got to me as well. So she started to lose weight and liked the way she looked. Are you telling me no one else has done that? And decided to stay that way?
I’m not as big a fan of her as I was initially, as I think her ego’s taking over, but when you all slag her and wonder what she does that’s so stressful, think about how you’d react getting photographed everywhere you go, at speculation about your reproductive status, your shopping habits, your smoking status, etc etc. If she puts a step wrong in any of those, her feet are held to the fire. Yeah, it would stress me out.
All of what you said makes sense. i think the problem many here have with these statements is that she’s not saying: “yeah, I crash-dieted because I was stressed out about getting married in front of everyone and it’s tough for me to maintain this figure.” She (or her people) are saying that she dropped all that weight by eating oatmeal and walking with arm weights, and it’s not hard for her to maintain it.
They’re selling a ridiculous fantasy.
If she started losing for the wedding and then liked the results so kept it going, she has a distorted body image. If she thinks this looks good, I believe she’s sadly mistaken. Thin is one think, too thin looks bad.
William should try Rogaine. It really works ! and Kate should take PreNatal vitamins and stop smoking. – Weight lose and smoking..obviously someone is holding back on getting pregnant.
Besides Diana, I believe Princess Margaret had an eating disorder as well (but Margaret received treatment for it). I do believe it is a stressful life, even if it’s also a life of luxury.
But at least Margaret was born into the family. Diana and Kate married into the family, and I think that’s why the palace doesn’t give a sh!t about their health. They will ignore Kate’s health and emotional problems like they ignored Diana’s. The family seem like cold-hearted azzholes to me. And that includes William, despite his charming smile — I don’t think he gives a crap about his doormat wife any more than the rest of his family do.
Even though I criticize her for being lazy, I also feel sorry for Kate.
Not much comment on the diet story – I agree it’s probably crap too; no one “likes” dieting, but they do it anyway!
But I think the constant comments about her lack of work before marrying William are unfair. She has worked for her parents’ company, and yes, while some point out that it was probably a very cushy job and that her role hasn’t been specifically stated so she might have just been sitting on her ass all day, one must remember that she tried having a normal job.
She worked for Jigsaw very briefly until the British press made her life so unbearable she had to quit. They were following her everywhere – in the morning to work, when she was at lunch, when she was leaving… It must have been overwhelming for a person who was known for being quite shy and timid in her youth had zero experience of being in the media. Even when she and Will were dating in university, it wasn’t so bad; St Andrews is reportedly a very quiet place, paparazzi-wise, so she would not have garnered much attention there.
I am not a zealous Kate-supporter; in fact I’m quite indifferent to her, and have myself found her attitude post-duchesshood quite lacking. However, people like to bring up life before becoming Mrs Cambridge, and I find myself feeling sorry for her when people seem to rag on her. I can’t say I would have reacted any better to the sudden intrusion of the press in my life than she has, and I doubt many of her critics would either.
Just my tuppence.
Several things: Google an interview given by KAte’s boss at Jigsaw. The job was tailored to her specific needs, and she wasn’t bothered so much by the paps as the fact that she needed to be at William’s beck and call – which ultimately was the reason she gave for quitting.
Also, there was a press embargo for all of William’s minority whilst he was at school and university except to acknowledge that he was at which ever institution with attendant photocall when he signed in. That is why very little is known about what he was upto and presumably who he was hanging out with at St Andrew.
All bets were off when he graduated. Same with Harry.
Geez, I get so tired of people trying to say that Waity worked. She did not. The web design and photography at the family web business were clearly identified as other people, not Waity. The Jigsaw boondoggle and press embargo are ably explained by lak above.
Waity has waity-ed 10 years for this. The press intrusion goes with the “gig”. Get busy and do something, like actually supporting the 5 charities just selected.
Ha, just like sticky vivky beckham’s mother went on radio in the U.K and swore her daughter did not have an eating disorder and ate “like a horse”
Obviously lies.
I meant sticky vicky b
Could she have lost weight before the wedding due to nerves? Just a thought. I like the picture above with her in the black dress. I think she looks good.
First, she will be the very first Queen of England with a college degree. Her degree is in Art History & unfortunately not the easiest field to get work in. Second, she worked at Jigsaw & then for her parents company. Little factoid here, nepotism in business runs rampant. Under what I can only imagine has been great stress she has handled herself, over the past 9 years, quite brilliantly.
This girl is far more accomplished than Diana was at this point in their royal lives. Diana & Sophie both lost a great deal of weight leading up to their weddings & Catherine did as well. I believe at her current weight she doesn’t have to do much to maintain as long as she eats sensibly.
I have been a loyal celebitchy reader for years & the snark leveled at this girl by some has really become unpalatable. In the same situation I am sure everyone here would be suffering in some way from what I am sure is unbearable pressure.
Give it a rest & this girl a break.
Correct me I am wrong but wasn’t she Prince William’s girlfriend? And you say finding a job with an art history degree is hard….
She is more accomplished than Diana was at her age? How is that? Diana was working for ten years, had 2 kids when she was Kate’s age.
Diana did lost weight. Didn’t she revealed to the press that she indeed had an eating disorder?
I think your post doesn’t truly defend Kate.
I also believe that anorexia is very hard to treat. One of the main reason is that some people try to be “nice” and protective of it. I understand how that can happen, but…it’s deadly. It’s not a joke.
I have seen her in person. She is extremely underwieght.
More accomplished than Diana! That’s the funniest thing I’ve read all day.
Waity had every advantage over Diana; a close, supportive family, a university degree, years to become accustomed to or at least contemplate her new royal role, a boyfriend/husband who, it seems, does not view her as a broodmare. What has she accomplished, except for bagging a rich prince.
I said more accomplished at this point in their ROYAL lives. Not at being 30. Diana was I’ll educated & unprepared and didnt understand what she had married into when she was 9 months into her marriage.
As with Art History the entire point is that she didn’t trade off the “I’m Wills girlfriend hire me retort” which is frankly refreshing. As I sm sure you are right & she could have. Please read & understand post before commenting on it.
I know everyone adores Diana but seems to forget that is was Diana’s son who chose this girl. Diana did a great deal if good in her life & a great deal of crazy.
Give the girl a chance. In 10 years who knows how much good (or how little) she has accomplished.
So she didn’t want to go to william for a job, but she did go to him to talk to the Audi to cut her a deal so she can buy a expensive car at a “royal” price? Come on! This is why people dis-like Kate: because instead of letting us know her and like her for what she projects her to be, we are fed bs like this: how she is so good for not using William to get her a job! and the explanations for why she is so workshy are jaw dropping!
You also forget Diana & Kate had very different pedigrees; Kate as a “commoner” would have had no experience with the press, whereas Diana was more or less groomed for it. Diana was bright and knew how to manipulate the media, she was brilliant at it. Kate, obviously not having the same exposure and arguably the same level of intelligence just seems to be relying on the royal spin doctors, who are quite out of touch with reality.
People say she “waityed” for the prince for however long; very few people pause to wonder whether she simply waited for William, and decided that he was worth all of the royal baggage that came with him.
Snappyfish: I did read and understand your post. I just disagree with you. Even at this point (9 months) in Diana’s marriage she was miles ahead of Waity in terms of making solo engagements while about 6 months pregnant with William at the time. Not to mention she had rabid morning sickness. No comparison. And as I said, Diana was not nearly as well equipped to take on royal responsiblities as Waity.
As to not cashing in on her association with William, see other responses to your comment. Also (just remembered) she got loads of free clothing from Issa. Now it probably was a quid pro quo as the designer loved the free publicity of William’s girlfriend wearing her clothing. But she accepted it.
University degrees are nothing if you don’t do anything with it, which is precisely what Kate has done. It has all been a waste of her parents’ money – or maybe not, considering she was able to meet Wills at St. Andrews’ in the first place. Her History of Art degree certainly did not save her from making that Faberge eggs blunder and in front of the Queen too!
Jobs would have been less tougher to find then – but in Kate’s position and with her connections, I find it hard to believe that she wouldnt have been able to get a job in a museum or a gallery. Her ‘job’ at her parents company is a load of tripe, but she accepted it anyway just to appease the public (and THE QUEEN) and say that, “YES! I AM WORKING… somewhat.” That and the Jigsaw job didn’t add up for more than 1-2 years. The rest of the time she spent chasing after Wills and always making sure that she is available to him.
She only announced her patronages recently. I wouldn’t applaud her for that as finding charities is one of the responsibilities that working royals should do.
Lastly, I would hate for this website to become pro-Kate, as this is one of the few places left where people can see ‘Catherine’ for what she truly is, without all the media fawning and Palace PR trying very, very hard to sell her image as this ‘modern, hard-working, glamorous and classy’ woman.
PLease google interview by her Jigsaw boss. She definitely used her william connection to get, tailor, keep and eventually quit her job there.
This website has changed quite a bit over the years. It shouldn’t be pro or anti anything. It should be fun. I just feel the attacks on this girl on EVERYTHING is ridiculous. The Audi mentioned above was Will’s car. I drive an Audi it isn’t “a royal car” just a nice one.
I stated before I understand how everyone seems to want to compare her to Diana, which she is nothing like. Which is a large part of why William chose her. She is calm & level headed. Not insecure & often times hysterical.
All the threads are over the top critical of her for no reason. Plus the palace announced a long time ago that she does NOT accept clothing free.
Fact & fiction are so much a part of all these posts, I would just like to read a story where the commenters dobt seem to feel they have to agree with the author because often times the facts they are using are full of BS
Like her or don’t like her, but make the assumption based on facts & not that Kaiser or whomever lead you down that path. At this point I’m sick to death of the poor girl & not for any fault of her own
I feel like pulling a 2005 again and say ORLY?
I’m sorry all, but having had an eating disorder in the past (anorexia) I can spot one a mile away! Lee Ann Rimes and Angelina Jolie also suffer from them. Kate needs to eat. She looks worse than Diana did when she was in the throws of hers. You’d think William would get her some help for I really believe he cares for her especially watching what his mother went through. Ugh! She is not getting pregnant smoking or this thin, not at her age, no way!
yup i also suffered from ana/mia and i totes agree! angelina is a classic case. so is victoria beckham. but i doubt the royals will let kate get thinner than this. i hope for her sake she doesn’t
What does being happiest in Wales have to do with their London security??? They have lived in Wales for years and happily so. Of course they need stricter security in London? What are you babbling on about?
Also, the constant Waity comments on this site? They met in college. How is getting married in their late 20s her waiting around? I met my boyfriend in college. We are now in our mid twenties and do not intend on getting engaged any time soon. Any of my friends or family who met in college and married also did so in their late 20s/early 30s. It is actually incredibly normal.
Kaiser, these Kate articles are getting ridiculous. You are looking for things to mock when nothing is there. I would suggest maybe looking at yourself and try to figure out where the bitterness comes from? Good luck with that.
One more time- It’s not the waiting that annoys those of us who do not respect her. It’s the doing nothing for years waiting that we don’t like. Lots of people wait, fine and dandy. But don’t they work or volunteer or, well, anything, while they wait? I just do not understand what is so hard to understand.
I still don’t get it, she worked for the family business, she spent time with her boyfriend, no she is’nt a rocket scientist but the only thing she needs is a uterus and a wave, that’s it. Besides we all have mispent years before we find out who we are. Who cares what Kate did or did’nt do, again Princesses dont need a phd. Fergie spent years living with a playboy and skiing, Mette Marie of Norway was a single mom with a drug past…all that matters is a working uterus, a wave and a Prince to put a ring on it.
hannah, just stop. kate is PATHETIC and its obvious to anyone with WORKING EYES AND EARS. she is NOT even REMOTELY PRETTY, she’s dumb, stuck up, shallow, insipid, can hardly form a sentence, she DOES NOT connect with people she’s FAKE-ass FAKE. DIANA was INCREDIBLE. word. (ooops, this reply was to hannah, two posts above)
^ This comment. Ahahahaha, wow.
ahaaaaaa double wow o.0
Well I for one hope you won’t change Kaiser. I love reading articles that aren’t biased and sycophantic, because most of the media seem woefully blind to anything other than “Catherine’s” perfection.
I think it’s great that some people point out when her PR people go overboard. I have been anorexic myself and I find it chilling that everyone turns a blind eye/encourages this woman when she is so obviously underweight and unhealthy.
Waity and her palace flacks are a bunch of lying dopes.
exactly.
Again that scar on her temple just behind the hairline! What is it?!
That “scar” is dried glue from her hair weave! This chick has been photographed and dissected for the last ten years of her life and suddenly a “childhood scar” appears once she marries with a full head of bouncy brunette hair? Puh-leeze!
The other day I was watching a tv show about “how french women are so thin” and all, they interviwed doctor Dukan and he said Duchess Kate did his diet. I think it’s just a rumour spread by the tabloids, and Kate probaly did bought the Dukan Diet book. You know we always buy whatever diet book when we go on an “I must lose weight” haze… 😛
I want to try this diet but must check up the kidneys first.
A lot of people who have tried say its worthless and really hard to stick to, and the food you have to eat is really expensive. A full protein diet is far from healthy, even if your a body builder.
Actually, I have heard the opposite! I know friends and family who have tried it and the results have been amazing! I myself have tried it to no avail, but it was my fault, & not Mr Dukan’s – I love my food and could not stick to the food restrictions.
It is only one week or so (depending on the person, the Dukan website will give you more details) that it is full protein. After that, it is protein + veg for however long, with one or two days a week full protein. After roughly two weeks, you reintroduce carbs etc. It is a good diet for giving your metabolism a kickstart and to maintain a healthy weight thereafter. You’re even allowed junkfood “celebration” days once a week!
I agree with the food being expensive though, especially the all-protein phase! But if you want to lose weight “consistently” and have an iron-cast will, I do recommend it.
This. I live in France where many people have tried the Dukan diet and now it is under fire – studies have shown it’s actually very hard on the body to eat so much protein and it puts the kidneys under a lot of strain. The tide has turned here in france and this diet is not popular at all anymore.
I know my advice is not worth much but I would advise you to stick to a healthy, balanced diet. Anything that needs a check up from a doctor first is playing with fire.
Wow…really? If she doesnt diet, than she has a workout addiction, which is actually more dangerous that other disorders because you really dont know when enough is enough. I think its time for her husband to take away the treadmill. Kate has lost so much weight in the past year, it looks like she aged about 10 years. She looked perfectly fine in January/February, but when she had her last apperance before the wedding in that blue suit, she went from 29 to 40, and it got even worse in that black dress before the wedding. Waity needs help. Maybe that charity that help with addiction that she is a patron of can help her.
She obviously has an eating disorder. The camera adds 10-15 pounds. If she looks THIS thin in pictures, imagine how skinny she is in real life.
She is either starving herself and/or throwing up, because that is not a “naturally” skinny — just look at photos from only a couple years ago. Also, that is not a scar on her head — she is artifically adding to her hair (I don’t know what the name of that practice is – “extensions”?). People with anorexia or bulemia can lose a lot of hair from lack of proper nutrition.
I don’t get why nobody close to her does anything about it. Isn’t there SOMEONE in her life who truly cares about her health and well-being, and doesn’t just see her as a brood mare (in-laws, husband), or a ticket to higher society (family)? No friends who care? No wonder she has problems.
Oh, and the royal family make me sick with the way they “deal” with the problem. Instead of addressing WHY her hair and body is so thin (obviously eating disorder), they make up some lie about a childhood scar. Really? THAT is how they deal with things? For shame.
SO TRUE!
A sign of bulimia is a childlike face, some chub in the cheeks, while the body is extremely thin. This is because the constant vomiting overstimulates the glands that produce your saliva, and it gives the lower face a swollen look. A close friend of mine was anorexic and then turned bulimic and now I’ve learned to spot the look (it can be seen on some models too).
I don’t think Kate is bulimic based on this. She looks like a typical anorexic that works out quite a lot.
Well, let’s see. She might not have a trainer. And she didn’t say she never diets, she just said she doesn’t like doing it.
So, she isn’t really lying.
Amen Kaiser. I for one cherish your spin on this whole waity charade.
Why on earth do people get so worked up over this harmless woman?
because she’s a lazy, stupid, stuck-up FREELOADER! people don’t want to pay a cent toward the maintenance of this snotty bi*ches hair, clothes, or home. GO AWAY KATE!
Thank you. You’ve managed to clear everything up.
Just because she doesnt like to diet doesnt mean she doesnt.
I think most women would agree w/ Kate on hating dieting but doing it to stay thin/lose weight.
I think she has an eating disorder. I accept I’m not any sort of medical professional so could be totally wrong, but her sister is thin as anything, yet she looks much thinner when you get a shot of them together. That made me blink a bit. She’s just so, so thin now. It isn’t normal for her as she wasn’t when younger, and therefore it can’t be her natural state. It’s a chosen one.
Secondly, they won’t be moving into Kensington until the end of 2013, I think? I know because the taxpayer is funding anything that isn’t purely home decor, and I winced. Renovations taking 2 years will not be cheap ones. At all. Good to know they’re closing Rape Crisis Centres and places for deprived babies and toddlers to go with their parents to play with amazing toys, with child development professionals on hand to help… but we can afford a national holiday for a wedding (why not on a Saturday?) and massive, multi-million pound renovations for a millionaire young couple’s home. Not to mention the millions it costs to guard them in a private home in Wales, purely because they don’t want to live on the (secure) base like everyone else.
I smell Marie Antoinette…and we know how she ended.
one can only hope. this kate is pathetic!
Let me get this straight squashPosh … you hope that katherine is beheaded?
The ugliness here is terrifying. A quick look at this Katherine post indicates that you may think that there has been a chip inserted in her head. You’ve also stated that she is a stupid, unattractive, shallow and stuck up parvenue.
If you harbour such hatred and violence towards someone that you have never met, I am truly frightened for the people that you do know who may one day displease or disappoint you. I would like to know what city you live in, so I can stay away from it. You need help. It is not healthy to make repeated and disproportionate remarks like yours.
The costs stuff is nothing to do with her, to be fair. William took the Welsh place a good couple of years before now, so that’s on him. And the property renovations aren’t down to her, either. We forked out for Prince Charles’ place after the Queen Mother died, and Andrew got an 80 year lease on the Windsor house, which the taxpayer also paid to renovate. There’s no way she has any say on all this.
I like Kate. I think she’s a bit dull, but I don’t get why people hate her. Being dull and not having a big career doesn’t make someone a bad person. She seems a nice girl, actually.
And to the other poster – wishing violence upon someone you don’t know, who has never harmed you or anyone else as far as you are aware, makes you the kind of person I would hope never to meet.
I don’t give a crap about this woman…
Why does any American?
Thank you Hannah G – my sentiments exactly! No need, Kaiser!
What the heck is wrong with her eyes since after the wedding!?? That and the weird side of her head scar that turned up, you wonder if she had a chip implanted..
oh you KNOW they popped something into her skull. FOR SURE!
I don’t understand the Kate Hate here. She was raised into privilege by self-made, social climbing parents and groomed to be a royal. I think most of us can’t comprehend that lifestyle choice. It’s too early to judge her. This criticism is unfair.
Far as I see it, folks are being waaay to nice! This girl is dumb, lazy, shallow, stuck-up NEW MONEY! bleech!
kate is NOT princess material!!!
just watched the old lady diana pre-wedding interviews, and then the one with waity and wills. SORRY WILLIAM – EPIC FAIL! your new bride is a lazy, shallow girl, who is AVERAGE LOOKING and can hardly form a sentence at 30 YEARS OLD! ZERO COMPARE to his mother, who was so lovely, ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS and RADIANT, composed, dynamic, enchanting, captivating, and well spoken barely out of her teens. diana had a NATURAL way with people – so endearing. waity is DUMB AS A BOX OF HAIR and NOT SINCERE – ITS OBVIOUS – and don’t try to say it’s nerves, im not bloody blind – the look on her face says it all – and what a mocking little beyoch she is! DIANA WAS A TRUE PRINCESS – LIKE HER OR NOT! kate – you suck. go away and do what you do best – flip your hair and go shopping and make fun of the pleebes. this so-called “princess” is a pathetic choice for diana’s son.
@squashposh: you need to chill out. Next time just break those little pills in half.
I think one of Will’s bitter exes have discover the joy of celebitchy.
This thread is upsetting to read. I’m an Irish Republican and abhor Royalty and inherited titles. However the vitriol and relentless animosity exhibited towards this woman is horrendous and very unwarranted. Shameful.
I agree.
I agree,also.
Totally concur.
Also find it scary. Just wow.
this is not right. this is beyond unacceptable.
and they have release the details of their secure apartment to the public? in what world people can make this type of mistake?
Eh, I don’t know. It said she hated dieting, not that she didn’t diet. And since the wedding it has looked like she gained a little weight back, but not much, so she may just be maintaining her weight at this point.
Though the lack of a personal trainer…maybe she herself didn’t have a personal trainer per se, but I would not be surprised if the palace or whatever gym has trainers that gave her a work out regiment.
If she’s still smoking, she should stop for the obvious health reasons as well as the image it gives her. Not to mention, if she wants to keep her few months ahead of William on the DL, the aging smoking adds to ones features isn’t the way to go.
She hates diets so she just doesn’t eat. It’s a lot easier than controlling portions and thinking about it… lol
We’re all entitled to our opinions, so this isn’t a criticism. Am just wondering what started the Kate Hate? I’d love to know.
*points and laughs*
No diet. No workouts?
*points and laughs again*
I cannot believe a 30 year old woman looks like this thin without serious workouts and eliminating lots of food. The metabolism shoots down so fast when you hit your 30s. We’ve all seen the pictures of Catherine when she was dating William. One example I keep going back is the pictures of the Middleton family with William on a boat out in the ocean. She looked good there—not skinny, just healthy. What about the pictures when she was with the rowing crew that time William dumped her? She looked fabulous. I think since since June 2010 (or when she moved in with William for serious) that she’s gone downhill weight and look-wise. Now she’s rail-thin and looks so old! Heck she made Mary of Denmark look younger (Mary will be 40 in February) when they walked side-by-side on that UNICEF visit.
And that hair flipping! Gah!
This is what bugs me:
I’m all for harmless gossip, and harmless fun. But this is neither.
No one said that Kate didn’t diet and didn’t work out. The article said that she hated dieting (who doesn’t?) and didn’t have a personal trainer.
Looks like I’m splitting hairs here, I know, but threads about this poor woman seem to draw out even weirder lunatics than the brandi/leeanne nonsense, lunatics who put up links to other people’s opinions as “facts” six months later.
I have no idea why I find this so upsetting. I have no problem casting stones at persons like the alleged bieber baby mamma, the KK klan, and La Lohan. I think that they are bad people with evil intent. But I don’t see evil here. Can someone fill me in as to why this woman makes some posters who I can only assume are not psychopaths turn into really ugly people? Did hair-flipping turn into the eighth deadly sin while I was sleeping? And in a non-hyperbolic universe, since when does announcing as promised a list of patronages equate with attempting to turn someone into Mother Theresa? And in that same fairly literal universe, how does someone who is seeking a little less harshness and a little more even-handedness a worshipper?
Tone it down folk.
A lot of people are sick of the over exposure that the media gives her. If you google info about her in her party days, you will see why it is hard to believe what much of the press is spouting. Politically the British monarchy is facing challenges regarding its future. Waity is just a pawn in the big picture.
She is just a girl, a young woman, I think jealousy at the ease of her life might be a factor here.
“you have no idea why you find this so upsetting?” and you call others weird? is kate your sister or something? getting upset over this is as crazy as what squashposh said. emotional unstable.
eternal canadian said that she looked fabulous and yes i actually believe that the articles wants us to believe that she indeed doesn’t diet. but anyway eternal canadian said something true: she is too thin. if that upset you….go find help!
I completely agree. I find it disturbing too. I don’t think they realise how they come across – and I’m no fan of the royal family myself. It’s one thing to criticise on facts, but blind, vicious hatred for someone who seems completely harmless is just downright odd.
I also think the hysterical defensiveness when anyone points this out speaks volumes. People don’t react that way if they aren’t a little uncomfortable with their own behaviour, in my experience.
I’m loving all the ‘Why do you guys hate Kate so much boo-hoo’ posts here. Just check the Celebitchy posts history and you can see a clear timeline of how Kate truly was prior to Wills – an incredibly lazy, doormat of a woman, who didn’t accomplish anything of note before she married the 2nd in line to the throne.
The Palace are doing a remarkable job turning this limpet (coined by her brother-in-law Harry) into the next Mother Theresa and her worshippers are swallowing every hook, line and sinker of it. Well done!
The job of princess is not that serious, she gives birth to the next heir and waves. She could be a single mom with a drug dealing ex like the Princess in Norway, what matters is what the Prince wants. I don’t care what she did in the past, in the present she is the wife of the heir and has a long road ahead of her. It is NOT THAT SERIOUS!
I didn’t see many “boo-hoo” comments. I have, however, seen a few that simply balk at all the strange negativity.
I’m sorry, but you think pointing to a bunch of gossip stories proves anything?
For the record, the Daily Mail goes after anyone who ever takes legal action against them. Look what happened in their pages to Kate Winslet, Facebook, the Mccanns… it isn’t a short list, they’re noted for it. They started gunning for Kate when her family took legal action to stop her being stalked by the paparazzi in the middle of the last decade. If you bought the stories they ran afterwards and invested , well, no offence, but who is being manipulated there?
She’s way too thin, probably ill with it. She’s not done much impressive with her degree and didn’t appear to work much, or hard. She seems a bit dull. I don’t think she is devastatingly beautiful – pretty enough, but her skin isn’t great and being very underweight is unattractive – she looked skeletal in some photos in the US, I thought. Fine, all those points are reasonable. You’d have problems arguing against them. But the reasons I’ve seen given for the full-throttle hatred are either non-existent or just fantasy.
Not having a big career isn’t a shocking moral failing, and nor is not being that keen on pretending to have a job when you don’t actually need one. Being anorexic deserves pity, I feel, not resentment. And her looks are hardly who she is, either.
@Kate: people w fixations are not only the ones that hate Kate to death, or love Kate to death, there are people like you “neutral” but still all over everybody else’s post.
Yikes!
I feel sorry for her. And i feel sorry for me too cos frankly i’m tired of seeing her face. I don’t dislike her but i am so sick of the media saturation.
She’s under an immense amount of pressure, every part of her life is under extreme scrutiny. Yes she’s married to Wills and will eventually become Queen but i don’t envy her.
Jealousy from some snobbish quarters who can’t abide the fact her parents are in trade.
I don’t think I get the same impression reading this thread. I think people are responding more favourably to the parents than the kids. I know the younger generation of the family gets flak for social climbing, vapidity, laziness, etc., but I never got the sense that people’s irritation comes from a good ol’ fashioned class war. The tenor of these conversations says (to me, at least), that while the mister and missus are to be praised for what they’ve accomplished, those values and sacrifices that undoubtedly got them to where they are today are severely lacking in their kids. It really doesn’t matter though, because w intelligence, work, talent and all of that is immaterial because if you want to bag the top prize and become a figure who gets all kind of amenities and adoration that far outweight any rewards earned through–well, earned. It shows what we value, huh?
And how do you get it and keep it? It is of the utmost importance that you cut yourself off at the knees so that you may be servile to a hoarde of natural ‘betters’ who have attained all that they have by a trick of biology. Outside of the figurehead status (if that’s something of importance to you) they seem to be the only ones who don’t realise that they’ve outlived their usefulness and see the alternation of spectacle and secrecy as full public consent to their rarefied station, rather than fairground attraction rubbernecking from a public who wants to see some pretty clothing once in a while. But then, the ‘joke’ is certainly not on them and if you choose to see it a ‘game’, who cares what we think or do about it or anything because hasn’t she kind of ‘won’ at life for her efforts (or non-efforts, depending on who you ask)?
I truly believe from what I read here that the opposition isn’t to who she is or what she and her clan were, it’s not an Oscar Wilde play, after all–but rather the way she has to ‘become’ for people who largely only acknowledge the existence of most of us (historically, at least) because we’re the people that are supposed to bow to them, or something. Pippa gets excoriated pretty regularly on these boards, but there are always a group of people who say, ‘But at least she works– and truly works, not just carry a briefcase for photos. Okay, maybe not as much the last part, but the photo ops are still catching her commute.’ I think people have greater respect the older Middletons *because* they work in a trade, but maybe it’s cultural. I do see that the duchess is largely viewed as someone who has been a professional leech for some time, now, and are irritated by her ‘earning her keep’ through waving, not working. But that’s the way it has always been and there is always going to be the division between the ‘Really, what have they done to you, why so bitter?’ and ‘How can you support a gaggle of inbred racists and gloried welfare bums?’ camps.
The thing is, if she ever entertained before or does entertain in the future some ambition outside of avoiding the wrath of The Firm, they’ll be pretty insistent that she abort it, because in a way, she’s just as much of an employee as anyone on the payroll. Sure, there’s protocol, but where’s the love? Judging by all of the eating disorders that place fosters, my guess would be ‘ummmm’, but I’m really expounding on my personal views at present.
I guess it’s the modern-day princess complex, the one that posits that nothing in your life, nothing in anyone’s life is worth so much that it can’t be put aside for you to shape yourself into something really unnatural for the sake of a lot archaic ideals that aren’t really servicing anyone. So why bother with all of that palaver when you can be yourself, be your own master or do real good at a hands-on, not hagiography through ballgowns and champagne level? Well, even though I don’t imagine they’ve together for so long because they hate each other, they’re not a couple of doe-eyed teens and there’s a good chance that there’s a lot about that life to love, there’s still that kind of perpetual self-dampening demanded of you get to be a princess. And it looks so danged enticing in many, many ways.
Jealousy? If you’re going to defend Waity then get a better excuse please. And it wasn’t that long ago when aristocrats looked down on people like the trashy Midds for *gasp* doing trade!
I think a lot of the difference in opinion comes from culture clash. As an American expat living in a former British colony, I still don’t quite get the whole class system in the UK, even after 11 years of being exposed to it. America is, at its root, still a meritocracy – the UK upper classes are not. The value system is completely different. Personally, I prefer a meritocracy. I think Kate is quite pretty and harmless but my guess is that she is incredibly shallow and boring. The type of person who could happily sit around for hours and discuss whether it is better to have a house at the beach or a house in the mountains. And she really did sit around and do absolutely nothing but wait to bag her prince for a decade. That said, he was a PRINCE and she is the future QUEEN of England. Would it have killed her to volunteer for good causes in her own right during that time? She was, after all, being supported by millions in family funds.
very happy i got to read your comment (after all the craziness above) finally someone who knows how to formulate an idea and keep a middle road. very refreshing!
Wow unbelievable, some of the comments here. The way some of you talk about someone you don’t know. If you don’t live in a glass house you can’t know what kind of pressure Kate has to deal with. And guess what? None of you will ever know! Good riddance…
I agree with you. I also don’t get a lot of the vitriol but I’m also not quite sure what the ‘pressure’ is that she is dealing with. Is she in an unhappy marriage? Is her husband cheating on her? Is she a single parent trying to work and raise children? Is she struggling daily to make ends meet? Is she constantly being stalked by the paps in Wales? Is she hated by her husband’s family? Has she been cut off from her own family? Is the Palace spreading lies about her and setting her up to fail? Is she emotionally having problems but being thrust in front of the cameras on a daily basis all the same? Is she running herself ragged trying to make the world a better place through her charitable work? Honestly, I don’t mean this to be rude in any way but I simply don’t see much ‘real’ stress in her life at the moment.
I guess that is my point Mich. We don’t know what her life is like. We will never know. I think people can speculate and be completely wrong about what her life is like. I just think only other royals know what that kind of life is like. I’ve lived in a glass house (Not a royal glass house). None of my friends understood it and will never because it’s not their life. Thankfully as I’ve gotten older I don’t care what people think anymore. It’s quite silly, people’s comments. It’s all good if people are being sarcastic, but it’s sad (pathetic) when people are being serious about their comments about this woman.
I really think that she should get a better PR team. That’s where the whole “hate Kate” comes from. I am not sure if it is Kate and Will that want to promote a image that make people feel like fools, but….truth is if they would just stop explaining a scar, or the affordable clothing, or the country people image, people would comment but comments wouldn’t be this heated. I must say whatever they are doing with their image bites them back hard.
I think she is sick. Somehow. Is not the public pressure or her new royal family that makes kate look so thin. I am afraid she does this to herself. And it’s sad because a disease like this is hard to cure. It’s her overly controlled image same make up same hair, that makes me believe their is some OCD there. I’m not an expert but there are a couple of videos online from her wedding where you could clearly see she enjoys being in the lime light and that she couldn’t wait for it. I don’t like Kate, I don’t like her PR team, but I feel sorry for her.
At the risk of being flamed, I think Kate is inherently self destructive and that would explain why she has blown all her chances in life to better herself. Now that she has the ring and title and ability to really do something worthwhile, she has taken it and is now moving on to destroying herself. She’s destroying the one thing she has control over, which is her body.
She’s never had a job ever? Lazy SLAG!!!
Dieting involves some calorie intake, which might be the part she hates about dieting.
Instead of spending money on PR, and BS PR may I add, the palace should have gotten her some professional help.
Worst than having an eating disorder and smoking, is trying to get pregnant while smoking and starving.
The fetus will have the increased likelihood of suffering from so many disorders and problems due to her smoking and lack of sufficient calorie intake.
I think it is the responsibility of her spouse- William and her close family and friends.
I hope no little girl in England is looking up to her and trying to mimic her anorexia/ smoking habits.
As for her lack of work experience- isn’t that exactly what the British like and expect of the “Royals”?
To do nothing and spend their money while feeding the tabloids with their personal lives?
Besides Harry and William who are military men (and good for them for doing something worthy with their lives), who exactly worked in that family?
Judging the British wannabe in America- Victoria et al, it seems the British celebries are simply lazy and don’t like to work, like to starve themselves and seek fame.
At least Angelina Jolie and the rest of the American celebrities work and are very serious about their professional lives.
They actually earn their money by working and keep busy, even if the seek fame just as much.
Lastly, what kind of BS excuse is that she didn’t have experience with the press.
Why does any person require experience with the media in order to work?
I don’t care if she did or didn’t work or if she is planning on staying at home and shop all day, but I saw her picture thrilled to be photographed at the street ( years before they wed) and she needs no media experience in order to seek employment/ actually work.
It’s been a decade of “media experience” so if that is the excuse than she is supposed to be very experienced for some 5 years now.
I think KM definitely has an ED. I also agree that if I were British I would be super annoyed my taxpayer dollars were going to funding her wardrobe/home renovations, etc…. it’s simply not right.
That said, reading these comments I’ve started to change my tune. As a longtime Kate skeptic (mainly b/c I’m jealous, lol) I have to say, the hate on these boards makes me feel badly for her. Yes, she never had a real job (sorry, a five month stint at Jigsaw/ “working” for her parents does not count, esp. since she was hired for her connections @ the former) and she waited around for a prince. But you know, I think she has amazing style and is a classy dame. There, I said it. I think she garners hate b/c she does what she does so. well. It would be easier to pick on someone trashier (I’m thinking Chelsea Davy) but Kate is carrying out her duties with impeccable style. Though I wish I could spend my life cavorting in ball gowns and breaking bottles of champagne over seafaring vessels, seeing as that’s out of the question, I’m pretty happy to watch KM do it.
She’s no Diana, but she’s got grace and style and gets a lot of undeserving hate. There. I’m officially a KM fan.
I do agree with one thing- she has an amazing classy style.
Duchess Weavy
it is possible that she wasn’t dieting exactly. I recently went through an extremely stressful situation which became so bad that my hair started falling out and I lost my appetite. I lost 5kgs in a week (i think that is roughly 11 pounds) from the sheer stress of it all. So it’s possible that the stress of the wedding and the extra attention pushed Kate over the edge stress wise
She doesn’t seem like she has an eating disorder. Women come in all shapes and sizes. She’s the naturally skinny type, you can tell with her hips. She has a very straight body.
If she was always this skinny, then I would agree and say that she is naturally like this. However, if you go back and look at pictures before the engagement, she had a completely different shape.
Yeah, sorry, NOT naturally this skinny. Lots of women do thin down a bit in their 20s, losing “baby fat”, essentially. I could buy that her pre-engagement weight loss was that sort of thing. But she definitely lost a lot of weight in the period between the engagement and the wedding, which is a relatively short period of time (~6 months), and I think she also lost some weight after the wedding. I would guess she is now back “up” to around her wedding weight, which is still loads thinner than she ever was in college.
In my experience, if someone is naturally a size zero, they have been that way pretty much since they were babies. I could buy that Kate just enjoys being active and doesn’t particularly care for junk food as an explanation for her pre-engagement weight loss, but the stuff after is either deliberate hard core dieting or a massive case of stress (either way, not a good long term strategy for health, so I hope she gets it sorted out)
Even outside of the fact that they’re pretty much as rarefied as you get, they must have such a skewed view of reality, the royals. In print they’re bastards and in person they’re gods. I wonder how often they come across people who are simply relaxed and genuine around them. Who do you trust, the demonizers or the sycophants?
My thoughts on the Kate Hate:
You know how their are some guys whose mothers think that *no* girl is good enough for their boy? I think there is a collective attitude like that about William since Diana died. A lot of people have mentally adopted him as “theirs” and nothing will ever be good enough/worthy of him. I see this especially in all the Diana comparisons. Diana was no saint, though she certainly did a lot of good work (and, no doubt, had a very rough time of things marrying into that family). William basically would have had to marry some hybrid of Mother Theresa, a supermodel, and a high powered career girl, who was ALSO willing to give all that up for him and a life of being hyper criticizes/scrutinized in the tabloids and being constantly castigated by the cult of St. Diana. Yeah, that wouldn’t have been hard at ALL.
I don’t know Kate personally, so I have no idea if she’s secretly lovely or secretly evil. Does it seem like her family are probably shameless social climbers? Yes. Does it seem like she is perhaps a bit vain/too into her looks? Yes, but seriously, what woman would NOT be, knowing she was going to be so in the public eye? Does she have an ED? No idea, though her obvious weight loss over the past year would suggest that something is going on, and if it is an ED, I hope she’s getting treatment, even if the palace likes to spin a bunch of lame PR about her handweights and her love of kettle chips.
There are a LOT of women who hang around waiting for their men to propose. Maybe they shouldn’t, I don’t know. I’m not sure those marriages have a success or happiness rate that is either wildly lower or higher than average. There are also lots of women who put career aspirations on hold for the sake of a relationship. And plenty of the women who do this are really smart, ambitious, savvy ladies who simply decide that their man is the most important thing in their life. I don’t know if it is a decision I ever would have made, but I don’t think it is categorically the wrong choice. Kate has been very much in the public eye and I’m guessing working for the family was one of the few jobs where she could have some guarantee of privacy (though I’m also sure the flexible schedule helped loads too). If the press had left her alone (i.e., if the cult of St. Diana weren’t so eager to devour any “news” to do with PW…), maybe she would have done something with herself. Who knows?
I don’t think this woman is amazing or the cure to cancer (and I wish the tabloids would stop extolling her as such), but I don’t think she deserves all this vitriol either (or at least, she hasn’t done anything publicly to deserve it). The monarchy, collectively, is an outmoded, dated organization that really ought to be scrapped or at least majorly downsized, the sooner the better. But Kate is simply a symptom of the whole monarchy problem, she isn’t *the* problem. There are other members of TRF who do not much of anything (or who behave really terribly, long after their twenties), and they don’t come in for this sort of criticism.
Wow there is a box of crazy on here today!
I’m English. I like her. I think that being part of the royal family is hard. There are plenty of ‘celebs’ out there who get less hate than this and they only seem to be famous for sex tapes, bolt ons and cat faces. There is also a huge portion of the English society who don’t work and just mill about shooting stuff and wearing wellies. You don’t ahve to be a Royal!
I also love the Queen and I’d totally smack that Harry ass – so there!
I also suspect that very few people ranting on about how great Di was are actually old enough to have lived through her reign. She died what 15 years ago? Katy has never tried to compare herself to Diana and I’m sure she’d be slated if she did. The
What’s hilarious is people acctually get upset that people don’t like Kate. Everyone is not going to like her, get over it. Some people are not likeable no matter how much they are pushed on the public. Kate may be one of those people that brings out vitriol from a great number of people. Kate has no personality, she’s just a taker, she brings nothing to the table. All she did was work her way inside Pr.William’s University room and work her magic until it got her what she wanted. The public is not fooled by her, they’ve watched her for ten years. All she cared about was her goal, bagging Prince William, for her to suddenly act as caring about other things like charities is just fake. She’s so fake, it’s laughable.